As seen on http://100scopenotes.wordpress.com/2009/07/28/create-your-debut-ya-cover/

CREATE YOUR DEBUT YA COVER

1 – Go to “Fake Name Generator” or click http://www.fakenamegenerator.com/

The name that appears is your author name.

2 – Go to “Random Word Generator” or click http://www.websitestyle.com/parser/randomword.shtml

The word listed under “Random Verb” is your title.

3 – Go to “FlickrCC” or click http://flickrcc.bluemountains.net/index.php

Type your title into the search box. The first photo that contains a person is your cover.

4 – Use Photoshop, Picnik, or similar to put it all together. Be sure to crop and/or zoom in.

5 – Post it to your site along with this text.

:P They have other ones, such as ‘create your own fantasy book cover’

I don’t really like either version, but I couldn’t decide which one to leave off.

Hands off, M!

I would do one of these, but my image-editting skills leave much to be desired.

@Diamonte

What a coincidence!

This is what I got:

I’m thinking dark thriller, what do you think?

I had a small picture and a crappy online Photoshop site, so no recommendations. Wait a few minutes and I’ll make a back cover for the recs…

www.lunapic.com

It’s an online photo editor. If you want to post it here, though, you have to create a private Lunapic account, then save the pic to that account, then click “code”, then scroll to the bottom of the page and copypaste the direct link. But I love it since it requires no downloading or Flash.

Good ol’ MS Paint for me. And PowerMenu, although that program is as much an image editing tool as Eldest is a good book.

Here’s a new one- it’s a dark romatic thriller that’s “edgy” or whatever sells these days. shrug I like it a lot better than my second one, but not as much as my first one, which I think turned out really cool… I’d actually buy a book that looked like that!

EDIT: the text is kind of hard to read. The top says “the romantic thriller of the year… – new york times”, the bit under the title reads “...even true love has secrets…”, and the author’s name is Blanche F. Gonzales, with all lowercase letters for extra “edginess”.

I like this one’s premise, but my cover art… meh. This is fun!

XDDDD That totally looks like a trashy romantic novel.

heh, no, I got Diana McDonald from the name generator.

Women have to fantasize about something. Might as well be well-cut black men statues.

Unless it’s Will Smith or Thierry Henry, nah. :P

Jeni, Thierry Henry IS NOT SMEXY!!!

I agree, Note is the one I’d be most likely to pick up. No offense taken.

@ Jeni,
Whatever suits you. Not into the marble ebony cut statues, I guess.

How do you post your own pictures?

I’ve done 5 of these, but I don’t know how to post them.

Thank you.

Does Photobucket cost money?

Announcing the next novel from Delbert B. Lewis, who Time Magazine called “arguably the best living sci-fi author”, a psychological thriller that tests the limits of our imagination and sanity.

Delbert D. Lewis really does sound like a sci-fi writer.

@SmartAlien: yours is cool too!

That looks like a real children’s picture book.

I try, and I occasionally succeed.
That is a pretty winsome quote.

I think that was from the Fantasy Book Cover one- there’s different directions for that one.

Oh. I must find these instructions! Runs off to find them

Ooh, a lot of those look like fun reads.

Seize looks like one of those YA novels… I’ve never seen the show, but for some reason, I’m thinking of Gossip Girl.

Cartwheel looks and sounds like a real book, what with the “what seemed like the end was only the beginning” bit.

Chuck looks awesome, too. I’m imagining some crazy memoir or something dealing with flying and survival in the wilderness, for some reason. But with cool people.

Well… Photoshop the house out for the official release.

Yeah, and I like how I could make the words look like shadows that matched the kids shadows in PhotoShop. I also think that Press looks cool. Cartwheel made me want to write a book called Cartwheel and suggest that picture as coverart. I just really love how it came out.

Back blurb:
“A child born to walk only on his hands proves to everyone how they can stand tall.”

(man I think I just found a new game)

Squall: When a storm threatens the small town of Shady Grove and all of the residents are evacuated, eight local teenagers are stranded on a nearby island. Can they overcome their differences in time to survive the storm… or will they be washed out to sea?

Exhibit: Marshall Lewis created some of the world’s most fascinating abstract art. But when a stroke cripples him, he gives up painting- and sinks into a deep depression. Will he overcome his difficulties and return to the world of art or fade away?

I would join, but everyone would laugh at my ridiculous blurbs.

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@Nate - mine are all the "SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENS!!! What will happen now?!" variety, I'm afraid. I don't usually like reading those books... but at least writing the blurbs is interesting! :D

@SWQ - do it anyway! Come on, mine are terrible too.

@Nate – mine are all the “SOMETHING HORRIBLE HAPPENS!!! What will happen now?!” variety, I’m afraid. I don’t usually like reading those books… but at least writing the blurbs is interesting! :D

Yes my young apprentice. Give in to the dark side…

Actually, it sounds interesting… kind of like a comedy, though.

The Demon and the Castle: A proud faerie prince has been trapped in a demon’s body for five hundred years, as punishment for an unspeakable crime. When he sees a floating castle inhabited by all manner of strange people, he sneaks aboard, and is immediately welcomed. How long can he keep his secret hidden from his newfound family?

I figure it’s a tale of self-discovery in the face of seemingly unending tragedy, where a young man seeks solace in nature and learns to find himself.

Only to be eaten by a bear.

Alien, that only applies with villains.

This is a protagonist we’re talking about. Being eaten counts as a fail.

Anyone have a link to the Fantasy YA Cover instructions (if there are any)?

I went to the source at the beginning and…yes, I found it. Forgot to look lol! This is fun.

I was actually going for “Beauty and the Beast meets Impish Idea”...

_{I have egoitis now, apparently. Maybe I caught it from Paopao…}

I felt like doing this again. Because it’s fun and it gets me excited.

Back of the book blurb: Doze is the heart-wrenching tale of one girl’s struggle to survive on the harsh streets of New York City.

Which is why it’s so hard for her to survive on the harsh streets of New York City. Here she is, running from the cops, leaping over trash cans, dodging homeless people… zzzzzzz….